JAMB 2019: Summary of “Sweet Sixteen” by Bolaji Abdullai

Author : Bolaji Abdullai

Genre :  Fiction

Number of Pages: 157

Publication Year: February 1, 2017



Description of the Novel

Aliya has to constantly remind her father that she is not a child but ‘a young adult.’ He does not always agree with her.

But now that she is turning sixteen, he is sitting up and taking notice.

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OUR RIGHT

Election day
A day that determine the fate of four years
The day where the citizen chooses their destiny

IN THE KITCHEN

She was carried in the same womb for nine months
She came the same way as the male child
She grew up the same as the male child
Studied, does what He can do
She got a qualification

A DREAM

I listen to the little ones recite the poem of Solomon Grundy
Who was born on Monday
Christened on Tuesday
Married on Wednesday
Took ill on Thursday

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